"Modern Hebrew for Beginners" offers secondary school, college, and independent-study students a state-of-the-art learning experience. This combination text and workbook is designed to be used with web-based audio, visual, and interactive materials to give students multiple learning opportunities suited to a variety of learning styles. The program provides for intense practice of all four language skills: reading, writing, listening comprehension, and conversation. Esther Raizen introduces the basic concepts of Hebrew through a wide variety of written and oral activities, many of which are offered through a dedicated website rich with computer tutorials and short original films based on contemporary Israeli life and society. Raizen emphasises the spoken language, while also paying attention to various aspects of normative grammar, of the written language, and of cultural elements associated with Hebrew. With this variety of materials and the capacity for continuous updating via the website, teachers and students will find this book endlessly adaptable and highly suitable for self-paced training and a variety of academic settings. A native of Israel, Esther Raizen is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin.
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"This new introductory textbook is far-and-away the most interesting, innovative, and promising development in Hebrew education that I have seen... Its strength lies in its integration of multiple modes of presenting Hebrew to the learner... This variety in modes of presentation helps teach students the range of communicative skills they would need to function in everyday life in Hebrew." -Daniel Lefkowitz, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
By Mark Claydon
Format:Paperback
I, like most Jews, learned to read Hebrew for the purposes of prayer and could read Hebrew reasonably comfortably but could not understand what I was reading. Having made some trips to Israel it was soon apparent that while I was comfortable with my prayer book Hebrew, actually speaking it and understanding it are totally different! This book reminded me of the basics of the language (basic grammar etc) that I had learned at a young age but also introduced me to phrases and words that you hear in everyday Hebrew. If you have access to a PC and the Internet then you can access resources over the net (including videoclips etc). This made things a lot more fun and I feel that I have actually learned something via this book. Have I learned to speak Hebrew fluently? No, but I have developed more confidence and feel that I could handle a day-to-day exchange without too much embarassment!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I've just bought this book and must say have not started with it, just went through it sporadically. Instead I am still using the Assimil method, although I don't find it amazing either, but there at least I have made some quick progress with hearing and understanding basics.
Modern Hebrew is good if you have time to spend. If you want to hear anything, you'll have to visit the website, otherwise you'll have to spend your time deciphering the Hebrew letters from the start, and personally, although I can read some words already, I always like to have some kind of confirmation of the sounds, so English characters to describe the pronounciation would have been welcome here. I don't think I will be using this book now for this reason. Additionally, this book really seems designed and structured to be used in a classroom, but may not be ideal for someone wanting to learn by themselves with no live teacher support.
Modern Hebrew is good if you have time to spend. If you want to hear anything, you'll have to visit the website, otherwise you'll have to spend your time deciphering the Hebrew letters from the start, and personally, although I can read some words already, I always like to have some kind of confirmation of the sounds, so English characters to describe the pronounciation would have been welcome here. I don't think I will be using this book now for this reason. Additionally, this book really seems designed and structured to be used in a classroom, but may not be ideal for someone wanting to learn by themselves with no live teacher support.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By M. Hamann
Format:Paperback
While I thought the program and layout were useful, the fact that it is a web-based multimedia course made it more cumbersome to actually use. While one optimistically assumes that things will always run smoothly, web-based learning has its drawbacks as it is especially inconvenient. I would recommend Colloquial Hebrew before this program (with the CD pack).
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